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—10 ACCIDENTS OF THE NOUJS r .§ 7;2. Abstract noicns, or the names of qualities ; as, bonitas, goodness ; dulcedo,sweetness.3. Diminutives, or nouns which express a diminution in the significationof the nouns from which they are derived ; as, libellus, a little book, fromliber, a book.4. AmpUficative nouns, or those which denote an increase in the significationof the nouns from which they are derived ; as, capito, a person havinga large head, from caput, the head.§ 7. ACCIDENTS OF THE NOUNS.34.—To Latin nouns belong Person,Number, and Case.1. PERSON.Gender,35. Person, in Grammar, is the distinction ofnouns as used in discourse, to denote the speaker,the person or thing addressed, or the person orthing spoken of. Hence,There are three persons, called First, Second,and Third.A noun is in the first person, when it denotes the speakeror writer ;as, Ego ille consul qui verbo ci'ves in exilium ejicio.A noun is in the second person, when it denotes the personor thing addressed ; as, Catillna, perge quo coepisti.A noun is in the third person, when it denotes the personor. thing spoken of; as,Tempus fugit.Note. Person has nothing to do either with the form of a noun, or withits meaning, but simply with the manner in which it is used. Hence, thesame noun may at one time be in the first person; at another, in the secondand at another, in the third.36.with regard to Sex.2. GENDER.Gender means the distinction of nouns37.—There are three Genders, the Masculine,the Feminine, and the Neuter.38.—Of some nouns, the gender is determined by their signification;—of others, by their termination.